Mexico’s president says he’ll speak with U.S. President Joe Biden by phone on Tuesday about immigration and the fentanyl disaster
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president stated Monday he’ll speak with U.S. President Joe Biden by phone on Tuesday about immigration and the fentanyl disaster.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated the leaders may even focus on improvement applications to assist stem the circulation of migrants to the U.S. border. The dialog comes two days earlier than the tip of pandemic-era immigration restrictions that allowed U.S. authorities to shortly expel migrants who crossed the border illegally.
López Obrador appealed to migrants to not use smugglers to journey to the U.S. border.
“Do not permit yourselves to be fooled,” López Obrador stated throughout his morning information briefing. “Do not permit yourselves to be blackmailed by coyotes, smugglers, who put you in danger.”
Mexico agreed final week to proceed to just accept migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua who’re turned away on the border, in addition to another migrants from Central America.
The Mexican president has beforehand requested the U.S. authorities to contribute extra improvement assist to Central America so folks received’t must migrate.
López Obrador has additionally slammed proposals by U.S. Republican legislators to make it tougher to use for asylum and simpler for authorities to dam migrants on the border.
“This actually degrades them, morally,” he stated.
The 2 presidents may even focus on the fentanyl disaster. The artificial opioid, primarily smuggled in from Mexico, has prompted about 70,000 overdose deaths per yr in the US.
López Obrador has denied that drug cartels make fentanyl in Mexico, though he has acknowledged that precursor chemical substances — and, he claims, completed fentanyl — are smuggled into Mexico from China, a declare China has denied.